"I told them I would never ever leave them, my loves, my Aya. They would hold on to me like this and call out to me."

He described the attack as "an airstrike by the criminal air force", saying he had taken his wife and children out of their house but, 10 minutes later, "we could smell it and my children couldn't handle it anymore".

His wife and children and been "martyred" in front of him, he added.

"Every half hour someone comes in and says they found seven more who suffocated here or there.